World News
What happened to the Catholic Church? (Part 1)
October 16, 2018 · By Arthur Jones for www.ncronline.org
How the Vatican culture created a church that feels as if it is dying of shame On Jan. 14, 1985, I wrote a four-page, 4,000-word article in Forbes magazine about the management of the Catholic Church, “the world’s oldest and largest multinational enterprise.” The article was headlined: “Managing the Lord’s Work.” Five months later, on […]
Read More...‘THE VILEST MAN IN BRITAIN’ Evil paedo facing groundbreaking legal action in UK by family of three kids he abused abroad
October 11, 2018 · By TOM GILLESPIE and SIMON LENNON for www.thesun.co.uk
A PAEDOPHILE is facing groundbreaking legal action in Britain by the families of three children he sexually abused in the Philippines. Douglas Slade – a member of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange – is serving 24 years behind bars for abusing five young boys in the UK. Now they are planning to sue him for […]
Read More...Convicted paedophile Douglas Slade sued by alleged Filipino victims
October 11, 2018 · By UK News for worldnewsgateway.com
A convicted British paedophile is being sued for damages by five young people who claim they were sexually exploited by him overseas, in what is thought to be the first case of its kind. The five will give evidence to the High Court via video link about abuse they said they suffered while Douglas Slade […]
Read More...When truth-telling becomes ‘subversive’
October 11, 2018 · By Inday Espina-Varona, Manila for international.la-croix.com
cted theaters in Manila, it received a thundering ovation. Both young and old erupted into chants of “Never again!” The so-called millennials said the movie had opened their eyes to the realities of the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos. Liway was a sleeper hit. Director and screenwriter Kip Oebanda ignored focus group tests done by major film companies […]
Read More...Don’t shoot, I’m disabled
October 9, 2018 · By Aleem Maqbool for www.bbc.com
Hundreds of people are killed by police in the US each year, and much attention has been paid recently to the high proportion that are black. But there’s another disturbing trend that is rarely discussed. It was shortly after 05:00 when three West Milwaukee police officers broke into the home of 22-year-old Adam Trammell to […]
Read More...Francis orders ‘thorough study’ of Vatican archives on McCarrick
October 9, 2018 · By Joshua J. McElwee for www.ncronline.org
ROME — Pope Francis has ordered a “thorough study of the entire documentation” present in the Vatican’s archives regarding now disgraced ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, in a move the Catholic Church’s central command said is meant to “ascertain all the relevant facts.” In its first statement on the McCarrick scandal since one of its former ambassadors alleged […]
Read More...Vatican cardinal rebukes Vigano: accusations against Francis ‘political frame job’
October 9, 2018 · By Joshua J. McElwee for www.ncronline.org
ROME — The head of the Vatican office for supervising Catholic bishops globally has issued a scathing response to a former ambassador who alleged a widespread cover-up of allegations against ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, calling the accusations nothing more than a “political frame job.” In an unprecedented three-page missive filled with a kind of forceful language rarely […]
Read More...Final call to save the world from ‘climate catastrophe’
October 9, 2018 · By Matt McGrath for www.bbc.com
It’s the final call, say scientists, the most extensive warning yet on the risks of rising global temperatures. Their dramatic report on keeping that rise under 1.5 degrees C says the world is now completely off track, heading instead towards 3C. Keeping to the preferred target of 1.5C above pre-industrial levels will mean “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented […]
Read More...Man charged with rape of two-week-old baby
October 8, 2018 · By BRENDAN MCFADDEN FOR MAILONLINE for www.dailymail.co.uk
A man who allegedly raped a two-week-old baby is being kept on 24-hour guard in jail to ‘stop other prisoners from attacking him’. The man, 25, is being held at HMP Maghaberry in Northern Ireland and was arrested last weekend on suspicion of raping the baby at a home. He is being treated as a ‘Special Person […]
Read More...The child is more important than the church
October 8, 2018 · By Clerical abuse for www.thetablet.co.uk
The British home secretary, Sajid Javid, has warned that at least 80,000 individuals are known to the authorities to constitute a risk to children. The alarming truth appears to be that sexual abuse is sweeping the country, though it is uncertain whether this is anything new, or unique to Britain. Such figures put into context […]
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